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Heat-absorbing   /hit-əbzˈɔrbɪŋ/   Listen
Heat-absorbing

adjective
1.
(of a chemical reaction or compound) occurring or formed with absorption of heat.  Synonyms: endothermal, endothermic.





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... are now digging from the bowels of the earth as coal. In the normal action of a steam-boiler, the steam-generating surfaces being all under water, however unequally the fire may act in different localities, the water, by its rapid circulation, if not by its heat-absorbing power, diffuses the heat and constantly equalizes the strain resulting from its conversion into mechanical force. The increase of pressure takes place gradually and evenly, and may easily be kept far within safe limits. It is quite ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. II, No. 8, June 1858 • Various
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